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Webcomic Wednesday: Courting Disaster

Welcome to Webcomic Wednesday, in which we feature comics available for free on the innerwebs, just in time for the Geek Sabbath (a.k.a. New Comics Day).

The timing of this suggestion has a bit of unfortunate serendipity, considering  that it’s a comic linked to an advice column, and one of the giants of advice, Dear Abby, passed away just the other day.

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Webcomic Wednesday: The Abominable Charles Christopher

Welcome to Webcomic Wednesday, in which we feature comics available for free on the innerwebs.

With the ubiquity of webcomics — let’s face it, there are like a million — fans of sequential storytelling don’t have a dilemma when it comes to finding them; the difficulty is discovering those needles in this haystack that are most appealing to each person. For every “Hark, a Vagrant” or “Homestuck,” which have garnered tons of fans, success, and acclaim, there may be 100 barely glanced at strips that are of a similar quality, sensibility, or enjoyment. (And popularity being relative on the Internet, we’re willing to bet that a bunch of folks never heard of even those stalwarts).

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DC Shows Signs of Continued Life for Vertigo…

DC Entertainment on Wednesday announced three key promotions for its Vertigo arm — the same division from which progenitor Karen Berger recently announced she’d be departing. While we’d like to join in offering our congratulations to new Executive Editor Shelly Bond, Group Editor Will Dennis, and Editor Mark Doyle, we’re far more jazzed about the fact that DC promoted the promotions than the promotions themselves.

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